the wedding seating
we got there to find that i was sitting by no one i know. apparently they decided to have a singles table. yeah, cuz that's nice. hobbitsister and busymommy got to sit with two of our cousin couples. other cousins got to sit with other cousins or aunts and uncles. but i was all alone.
until we decided to take matters into our own hands.
i have one cousin my age who's single on that side, and he was sitting by his parents and high schooler sister. why he wasn't at the singles table i don't know. (maybe because technically he's divorced so they thought he wouldn't fit in. i don't know.) i hardly ever see this cousin so i hardly know him, but who cares? at least he's not a stranger (and it would be good to catch up).
since obviously there were no couples at this table, all we had to do was get one person to move. so we took erin's place card (not having a clue who erin was), and switched her with my cousin. she'd never know, and my cousin wouldn't care.
and so i was not alone. (turns out erin is my foster cousin who wasn't coming to the wedding anyway, so why she had a placecard, we don't know. [and so technically they didn't put me with all strangers.] it just turned out extra nice because then we didn't have to worry about how this poor stranger erin felt about her spot.)
and then we only sat at that table for a little bit anyway, because we sat at the tables for the short wedding that took place right there, and then come meal time, a couple at the table behind us decided to scrunch onto our table because they wanted to be with their single siblings, and then since they moved to our table we just used the it's too crowded excuse to move to their table where army cousin and his wife were sitting. (got all that?) so then we weren't all alone and they weren't all alone, and we all got to be friends, and we didn't have to mingle.
probably because busy prayed that it would be better for me.
until we decided to take matters into our own hands.
i have one cousin my age who's single on that side, and he was sitting by his parents and high schooler sister. why he wasn't at the singles table i don't know. (maybe because technically he's divorced so they thought he wouldn't fit in. i don't know.) i hardly ever see this cousin so i hardly know him, but who cares? at least he's not a stranger (and it would be good to catch up).
since obviously there were no couples at this table, all we had to do was get one person to move. so we took erin's place card (not having a clue who erin was), and switched her with my cousin. she'd never know, and my cousin wouldn't care.
and so i was not alone. (turns out erin is my foster cousin who wasn't coming to the wedding anyway, so why she had a placecard, we don't know. [and so technically they didn't put me with all strangers.] it just turned out extra nice because then we didn't have to worry about how this poor stranger erin felt about her spot.)
and then we only sat at that table for a little bit anyway, because we sat at the tables for the short wedding that took place right there, and then come meal time, a couple at the table behind us decided to scrunch onto our table because they wanted to be with their single siblings, and then since they moved to our table we just used the it's too crowded excuse to move to their table where army cousin and his wife were sitting. (got all that?) so then we weren't all alone and they weren't all alone, and we all got to be friends, and we didn't have to mingle.
probably because busy prayed that it would be better for me.
posted by melilotnfosco | 4:27 PM
6 Comments:
I'm glad it went OK! I knew it would. :)
Busy, could you also pray that my crush would move back here? :)
Hurray for a good time!
- well, as good as any wedding reception can be. I'm so not a fan!
thankfully it was just me and my cousins sitting there eating my uncle's famous wild rice soup. i can handle that kind of reception. (i'm not big on the dancing kind.)
it's always good to have busy praying for you. even though she doesn't read this blog.
(and she says "i do read your blogs. i just haven't commented lately. but i read them." and so over the course of the weekend i asked "did you read this post?" no, she hadn't. it must be new. "did you read that post?" no. you must have posted that in the last couple of days. um...try weeks, busy.
come back!
and the wedding seating made no sense at all, but i'm glad you had someone to sit with, and i'm even gladder you got to move to the next table.
she also asked me how my prayer retreat went. that made me suspiciouser of her.
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